November 2021
October 2021
“Moroccan Sugar Loaves (II): Granulated or Not? The Question of Sugar in Driss Chraïbi’s L’inspecteur Ali” by Iziar de Miguel
Dans L’inspecteur Ali (1991), le narrateur Brahim Orourke est revenu d’un long exil en France et reçoit la visite de ses beaux-parents écossais pour voir sa femme Fiona qui est enceinte ainsi que leurs petits-fils. Brahim [...]
September 2021
The Hippocrene and the Seine
Charlotte Bourette (1714-1784), whose sobriquet was La Muse Limonadière, ran Le Café Allemand (rue Croix-des-Petits-Champs, Paris) which was frequented by hommes de lettres. Her verse and prose were gathered for publication in 1755, and her [...]
May 2021
April 2021
Une tasse de café
Life, writers, and coffee—vast topics, yet all three cinched together can look like the following: in the 2007 book Mon père (textes inédits recueillis par Leïla Sebbar, coordonnés par Behja Traversac, mis en page par [...]
March 2021
Poissarde, Pêcheuse
In eighteenth-century France a literary genre grew out of ridiculing and caricaturing women who sold fish at the market: le genre poissard. The women’s speech, manners, and social class were targeted. Fear and admiration of [...]